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Kotodama: the belief in the magic power of words

Kotodama: the belief in the magic power of words

2021-07-22 Thu

Kotodama (言霊) refers to the belief that words have mystical powers. It combines the word for ‘speech’ (言 koto) and the word for ‘soul’ (霊 tama). Kotodama presupposes that…














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